Reforming Civil Procedure
Subtitle: The Hardest Path
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781509925902
Subjects: Civil procedure, great britain; Justice, administration of, great britain; Courts, great britain; Land reform
Description: "Drawing on political, social and economic theory, Reforming Civil Procedure focuses on the English civil justice system by looking at its history and its processes. The book considers the objectives of civil procedure and how it operates for and against particular societal groups, and what ideas and behaviours impact upon it. The reform of civil procedure has been beset with difficulties. Some are caused by questions of culture and mind-sets resistant to the changes, some by a confusion and conflict of values, some by overambitious reform efforts, some by a failure to follow through on purpose clauses, and some by swinging from laxity to rigidity with insufficient analysis. This book makes a strong contribution to the field by synthesising the work of English writers with different views, extending the work in England on the role of philosophy, values, process and culture in litigation, and engaging extensively with American writers who have not previously been the subject of much attention in English civil procedural studies"--Bloomsbury Publishing.